Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Scott Lewis wrote:

> There's plenty of video and photo professionals. Small shops don't need Xsan and big shops can use macs. There's no reason you can't have terabytes of enterprise storage and have macs. Your San just isn't going to be Apple. And probably not your file server-- if you have one, since EMC, NetApp, etc have been doing so well merging SAN and NAS. 
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> I trust Apple to continue to serve the desktop. I trust them to continue to maintain the server version of their software in a way that has some neat features for real small offices that can live with a Mini or MacPro as a rudimentary server. 
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> In the mean time, my Macs can and do connect to Enterprise resources. 
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> I would like to see better iSCSI support. 


OK first you critique that Apple is out of the enterprise market, and is happy without meeting enterprise needs. So I point out that this has consequences for people who are not enterprise, and thus do not really have need for a SAN in the context given. But you say, of course you can get around the example storage problem by getting a SAN and connecting a Mac to it.

Naturally such a Mac user would need a SAN to get logical volume management, because Mac OS doesn't have logical volume management, or a particularly resilient file system.

It's not necessary to solve this problem with a SAN on linux, because there is very good lvm (online storage resizing, data relocation, and rw snapshots) and more resilient file systems available. 


Chris Murphy